u/rural_anomaly

Hi neighbors!

Several years ago I was exploring south eastern Michigan while checking out some other wares one beautiful Fall day and I happened across an orchard with the best apples I'd found in ages. I've since tried to relocate them but even using google maps, street view etc, I've drawn a big blank. Ever since, I've run up to get more apples in hopes of stumbling across this orchard and have found reasonably good apples but not as good. They press their own cider (which I also purchased at the time) and it's also fantastic. The people were as nice as could be as well, and let me make up a bag of a bunch of different varieties that I wasn't familiar with. (they had quite a few)

I made a drawing from what I remember, and it's not really to scale but highlights the main features inside the building that I remember. It may not be quite as close to the road as is illustrated.

I was driving around the southeast corner, but probably not much more than 35-40 miles from I-75, which I realize does leave a large area. It wasn't as far north as Ann Arbor iirc.

Can anyone help me find it? I would really appreciate it!

also, i've only drawn the 'open to the public' area and I believe the building itself is larger with storage and possibly coolers where the 'work area' is

EDIT: this place seemed to be geared to just the apples. I do not recall seeing any other products like baked goods (although that can always change) and was sort of surprised on my subsequent attempts driving around hoping to find it that when I did stop, and found donuts etc at most of those places.

EDIT#2: first, let me thank everyone again for the suggestions. I may also have underestimated how far west I had traveled, as I am pretty sure that I made it as far west as Adrian but not likely much farther than that and would have been headed back south and east afterwards. Not sure how distant Adrian is from 75, my bad

I ran across this page from the the Ohio SOS that includes some other data I thought some might find interesting and worthy of discussion.

The nuts and bolts of it is that you're never "registered" but rather assigned (by law no less) a party affiliation only based on which ballot you requested in a primary during the past two years. and that's it. nothing more, nothing less. you're not registered in the sense of a state with a closed primary where you have to actually be registered to a party prior to the election and cannot request any other party's ballot.

When I called the SOS office a few years ago they told me that in the case of there being an odd year primary, then it's a weighted average but couldn't tell me how it was weighted lol

what i DO find interesting is that they're tracking how consistent you are in choosing. i don't believe they split out that data for the public in the past. I'm sure there's some information that's useful, but i'm not sure what it is. it will be interesting to see if they update the information to include this past primary so that we could compare. I'm assuming the changes they detail are comparing 2020 to 2024

Affiliation Totals

Number of Registered Voters in Ohio: 8,060,554

Number of Registered Democrats: 817,063

Number of Registered Republicans: 1,508,641

Number of Unaffiliated Registered Voters: 5,734,850

Kept Affiliation

Democrat to Democrat: 441,870

Republican to Republican: 841,266

New Affiliation

Unaffiliated to Republican: 284,948

Unaffiliated to Democrat: 114,079

Switched Affiliation

Democrat to Republican: 37,543

Libertarian to Republican: 188

Republican to Democrat: 20,845

Lost Affiliation*

Democrat to Unaffiliated: 302,404

Republican to Unaffiliated: 160,827

Libertarian to Unaffiliated: 1,545

https://www.ohiosos.gov/office/media-center/categories/press-releases/2024-05-10

Help me find an orchard please!